Cuyahoga Corrections Officers Sentenced For Attacking Prisoner

CLEVELAND — Two former Cuyahoga County Corrections officers were sentenced Thursday after they pleaded guilty to attacking a restrained inmate. Neither man will serve more than one year in prison.

Nicholas Evans was sentenced to nine months in prison. He previously pleaded guilty to attempted felonious assault and one count of tampering with evidence. Timothy Dugan was sentenced to 10 days in Geauga County Jail. He previously pleaded guilty to one count of attempted abduction and one count of assault.

Both men also agreed to resign before they were sentenced.

On March 22, 2019, Nicholas Evans and Timothy Dugan attacked an inmate that was in a restraining chair, prosecutors said. The inmate was later diagnosed with a concussion.

"Inmates do not surrender their human dignity along with their freedom," Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said in October 2019, after Dugan and Evans pleaded guilty. "These two men abused their authority to pound a prisoner strapped to a chair. We wouldn't stand for a dog to be treated like that – let alone by someone exercising the authority of the state."

The investigation into the incident was led by the FBI. The Ohio Attorney General's office prosecuted Evans and Dugan.